Famous Quotes & Sayings

Khaya Ngqula

Sometimes when travel agents claimed commission they would have 500 flights while we had 450, because people had later used tickets that the airline counted as cancelled. This new system will ultimately assist in improving our customer service.

Elizabeth Pena

I believe the director is the one that sets the mood and if you have this hysterical director it's a domino effect. I would work for him forever, for nothing. Don't tell my agent that.

Kenny Loggins

When we were first offered a book deal prior to Avon's, they were trying to get us to change it from the first-person story into a how-to book, and they were offering us some decent money. My agent told me; 'you should really consider this'.

Stuart Pearce

Everything is agreed with Lee Croft financially. I have spoken to him and his agent about football matters. He is quite keen to stay here and hopefully he will be signing within the next day or so.

Sun Tzu

The sovereign must have full knowledge of the activities of the five sorts of agents. This knowledge must come from the double agents, and therefore it is mandatory that they be treated with the utmost liberality.

Kate Levering

I came to New York when I was eighteen years old, and the first audition that I ever went to was this huge cattle call at the Equity building where I had gone two days earlier to sign up - I didn't have an agent or anything. It was for 'Chicago.' There were probably three hundred people there.

Max von Sydow

Nobody told me there was any idea for a sequel to 'The Exorcist.' But my agent called me to tell me they were going to do it, and there was a part for me. I said, 'But I died in the first film.' 'Well,' he told me, 'this is from the early days of Father Merrin's life.' I told him I just didn't want to do it again.

Sheila Moulton

Carlos Garcia was an agent of change. People may not want to believe it right now, but he really was.

Sparky McEwen

Chris (Ryan) is a key free agent signing for us. This move will help us get back to being a championship-caliber team.

Douglas Brinkley

The Boys of Pointe du Hoc: Ronald Reagan , D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion.

Suliman Baldo

Deby has a very small army on whose loyalty he cannot count, so the edge he has is the French.

Samina Ahmed

It would have made a difference if he had been elected president. It might have even made a difference if he had given up his title of chief of army staff,

Elie Wiesel

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

Louis Caldera

Earlier this year, our Army Center for Military History did a search and found nothing in the official records that substantiates the claims that U.S. Army soldiers perpetrated such massacres,

Luis Mandoki

did not include the recruitment of the children, and when we were filming, in the scene where the children are lying down on top of the roofs, I asked, 'Oscar, why are they on the roofs?' and he said, 'Because the army was coming to take them away,' and he hadn't included that in the script because for him it wasn't important, it was everyday life.

Paul Wolfowitz

We want Army weapons systems that are more mobile, lethal and deployable,

Alexander Golts

There is no supervision at all, and the army just stews in its own juice.

Daniel Radcliffe

I think it speaks to the fact that other people are as excited about originality as we are. I think the thing that has been wonderfully communicated in the trailers and all the promotion for the movie [Swiss Army Man] is that it isn't like anything else you've ever seen, and we're not just saying that. I think that excites people.

John Ashcroft

perhaps the largest group of crime victims in our history.

Brad Pitt

Crime is just unvarnished capitalism, after all.

David Harris

There are a lot of criminals in this city, ... We were the first on the water, we were the first to rescue people.

Steve Whitmore

We'll have to wait until we get the exact funds to see how we'll use it, ... However, our focus is on unincorporated areas. And then we'd use it on countywide services, such as the crime lab, homicide, detectives and things like technology.

Mark Tuohey

We're going through the facts with the government. I don't think there's a crime here. Nothing's decided.

Doris Lessing

Hitler admired Stalin, quite properly seeing himself as a mere infant in crime compared to his great exemplar.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Michael Connelly

The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.

Dawn Barkman

Obviously, that person is a Good Samaritan, and they may know where the crime scene is.

Ben Howland

That was about 20 minutes into practice. He did not practice the rest of the time. Has some swelling there. We'll see how it feels. ... I would expect it would take a lot to keep him out of the game.

Robert Vincent

People are very sad. Our people called and gave because they knew it would be there for generations. We just never expected this.

John Hughs

Oil is on everyone's mind. We're expecting a fall in inventories, but instead we get a rise,

Shlomo Yosef

The situation is still serious, but it's stable. All the parameters ... are as expected following this type of surgery. Part of the treatment of the prime minister, in order to preserve low pressure in the skull, is sedation and respiration for at least the next 24 hours.

Tyler Fleck

The Thunder has great fans, and they're very loyal to their team, so I know they hate me. I'm sure there will be a lot of boos. I expect nothing less.

Dan DiMicco

Now, I don't expect our government to guarantee us low natural-gas prices. I do expect that our government will not withhold natural gas supply that they control.

Kamal Sharma

The statement was slightly more hawkish than we were expecting but there was one vote of dissent.

Laura Bush

is horribly disappointing and the sort of thing I normally expect from left-wingers.

Andreas Renschler

There won't be a total downturn ... overall we expect a slight weakening next year and I think all manufacturers are saying this.

Rebecca MacKinnon

The Patriot Act, passed overwhelmingly but hastily after 9/11, allows the FBI to obtain telecommunication, financial, and credit records without a court order.

Adlai E. Stevenson

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

Carl Mattei

After a game like that, to think we were one rebound away and we couldn't get it. I told the kids it comes down to free throws and rebounding.

Mahmud Abbas

after nearly 40 years of occupation, still do not live as free people in their own land.

Don Allen

Sometimes you have to have a little luck on your side, as well, especially the way we shot some free throws down the stretch.

Ray Gilmer

This is not a deep, hard freeze yet, but that may change.

Michael Schroeder

This governor got a free pass from conservatives for two years. The party is over.

Ayn Rand

Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.

Ayn Rand

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

Kate Bush

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

Mark Twain

The world will not stop and think- it never does, it is not its way; its way is to generalize from a single sample

Tori Kelly

When I'm on stage, I generally wear what I would wear every other day, but I think my hair is probably bigger on stage - it seems to be my accessory!

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

Michael Williams

At the end of the day, what happened in the first 72 hours is going to be generally overshadowed by what happens in the next 12 to 24 months,

Doug Smith

Wolf populations can generally take a 30 percent mortality rate and stay stable. If this is one year, there's nothing to worry about. If it comes to successive years, we could have a problem.

Jeffrey Bewkes

We think it's a general malaise about the (media) sector.

John McHale

Issues of this type are really between the general partners, ... Our office will get involved only if there is a request for a transfer of power.

Chris Dailey

She was very much a small-town girl. I always knew that she'd be successful and happy in her life because she's generally a happy person, someone who always looks at things in a positive way. She's great with people. I'm not surprised at all that she's back home.

Bill Graves

When things go to 50%, in general there's still a pretty good selection. More than 50%, and you may get a good price on something, but it might not be what you want.

Chris Beard

We're strongly recommending all users upgrade to the latest version.

David Briggs

That seems to be the latest reason to sell.

Laura DiDio

You're paying a lot for these licenses, but you're getting a lot, too. These are real, tangible benefits.

Anton LaVey

Do what you want as long as it's paying off for you. But once it's become a liability, then something is wrong and you better find out what it is.

Scott Hartnell

We were paying the price but the puck wasn't going in for us. (Auld) played well.

Kelley Cradduck

We understand some don't do it intentionally, they're just not paying attention. But in the end, they end up getting stuck in the intersection.

Doug Martin

We want this thing killed. This is a joke, and the sad thing is, we're paying for it.

Chris Sheridan

So far, we haven't had any trouble getting it, but we're paying 10 percent to 15 percent more for plywood,

Rich Vallinaggi

No one wanted to volunteer, so I did. I thought I'd try it. They were paying for the course.

Tom Smith

If this is what we are paying $192 a year for, then we just got taken for another ride.

Reuben Brewer

People need to be careful. See what you're paying for the perk.

Christina Hendricks

Anytime someone talks about your figure constantly, you get nervous; you get really self-conscious.

Richard Butler

After I said that to him, Aziz replied: 'then we can't talk any further.'

Mel Kohn

This is something we need to do a lot more talking about.

Brenda Ueland

We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role.

Jamie Bell

When I see people talking about TV, they're way more animated, way more passionate than when they talk about films.

James Woods

No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?

Craig Ferguson

The virus in the movie 'Contagion' is based on the bird flu which came out of nowhere back in 2008. Everyone thought it was going to change the way we live and it just faded away. Wait a minute, I'm talking about President Obama.

Brian Chesky

Whatever the press is talking about, they want to keep talking about it. So instead of asking yourself, 'How can I get them to start talking about me?', figure out a way to get yourself involved in what they're already talking about.